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Brock Turner, Former Stanford Swimmer Convicted Of Sexual Assault, Files Appeal

Posted: 02 Dec 2017 01:13 PM PST

Brock Turner, Former Stanford Swimmer Convicted Of Sexual Assault, Files AppealBrock Turner, a former Stanford University student, sparked nationwide outrage last year when he received a jail sentence of just six months after being convicted for sexually assaulting an unconscious, intoxicated woman beside a dumpster.


Here’s what scientists say a nuclear attack would look like

Posted: 02 Dec 2017 08:04 AM PST

Here's what scientists say a nuclear attack would look likeNBC News' Miguel Almaguer reports from Los Angeles, where America's first responders are preparing for nuclear emergency in case of attack.


Bodies Of Missing California Veteran And Dog Believed Found; Ex-Husband Under Arrest

Posted: 02 Dec 2017 11:26 PM PST

Bodies Of Missing California Veteran And Dog Believed Found; Ex-Husband Under ArrestRemains believed be those of an Army veteran missing for three months from her San Diego home and her dog have been found in a shallow grave in a rural desert area of Riverside County.


UAE 'deports' Egypt presidential hopeful Shafiq to Cairo: aides

Posted: 02 Dec 2017 06:10 PM PST

UAE 'deports' Egypt presidential hopeful Shafiq to Cairo: aidesUAE officials on Saturday deported former Egyptian premier and presidential hopeful Ahmed Shafiq from the Gulf country he had been living in since 2012 to Egypt after he announced his candidacy in upcoming elections, two of his aides told AFP. Shafiq landed in Cairo airport on Saturday evening and quickly left to an unknown destination, an airport official said. The move comes days after Shafiq, in exile in the UAE since 2012, announced his candidacy in next year's election and then said he was being prevented from leaving the country, angering his Emirati hosts.


German police secure nail-filled package found near Christmas market

Posted: 01 Dec 2017 12:50 PM PST

German police secure nail-filled package found near Christmas marketGerman police on Friday secured a device full of wires and nails found near an outdoor Christmas market in the city of Potsdam, but could not establish whether it had contained explosives. Germany is on high alert for militant attacks, nearly a year after a Tunisian Islamist rammed a hijacked truck into a Christmas market in central Berlin, killing 11 people as well as the driver. Police evacuated a large area of Potsdam's old town center on Friday, including parts of the market, and closed stores while they investigated the package, which had been delivered to a pharmacy.


These Are The Explicit Things Men Say To Women On The Street

Posted: 01 Dec 2017 12:34 PM PST

These Are The Explicit Things Men Say To Women On The StreetGrowing up in New York City, Sophie Sandberg began experiencing street harassment when she was 15 years old.


Fox News' Shepard Smith Says 'It's A Lie' To Call Trump-Russia Probe 'Fake News'

Posted: 02 Dec 2017 09:28 AM PST

Fox News' Shepard Smith Says 'It's A Lie' To Call Trump-Russia Probe 'Fake News'President Donald Trump may invoke "fake news" to push back on special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into his presidential campaign, but Fox News' Shepard Smith has cast doubt on that claim.


Croatian General Who Killed Himself at War Crimes Hearing Drank Cyanide, Autopsy Finds

Posted: 01 Dec 2017 02:03 PM PST

Croatian General Who Killed Himself at War Crimes Hearing Drank Cyanide, Autopsy FindsAuthorities aren't sure how he got the poison into the courtroom


Walmart Yanks T-Shirts That Suggest Lynching Journalists

Posted: 01 Dec 2017 05:30 PM PST

Walmart Yanks T-Shirts That Suggest Lynching JournalistsFollowing a complaint by a journalism advocacy organization, retail giant Walmart has pulled from its website a T-shirt that appears to encourage lynching journalists.


Israel Is Building Its Own Global Hawk Drone

Posted: 02 Dec 2017 06:24 PM PST

Israel Is Building Its Own Global Hawk DroneIsrael is building a giant drone comparable to America's RQ-4 Global Hawk, according to Israeli media. The drone will be an upgrade of Israel's Eitan long-range reconnaissance UAV, the Jerusalem Post reports. Upgrading the range and capabilities of the Eitan "will bring the drone to the scale" of the RQ-4 Global Hawk, the commander of the Israeli Air Force's Eitan squadron told the Post.


Kim Jong-Nam was carrying VX 'antidote': lawyer

Posted: 01 Dec 2017 01:01 PM PST

Kim Jong-Nam was carrying VX 'antidote': lawyerNorth Korean leader Kim Jong-Un's half-brother was carrying a VX 'antidote' when he was assassinated with the deadly nerve agent in a stunning Cold War-style hit, a lawyer said Friday.


Yemen's Huthi rebels slam Saleh speech as 'coup'

Posted: 02 Dec 2017 03:35 AM PST

Yemen's Huthi rebels slam Saleh speech as 'coup'Yemen's Huthi rebels accused ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh Saturday of staging a "coup" against their fragile alliance, after the strongman said he was open to talks with the Saudi-led coalition fighting them. "Saleh's speech is a coup against our alliance and partnership ... and exposed the deception of those who claim to stand against aggression," a Huthi spokesman said in a statement carried by the rebels' Al Masirah TV. Violence in Sanaa has left at least 40 fighters dead or wounded since Wednesday, rebel chief Abdul Malik al-Huthi said, as Saleh loyalists and rebel fighters continued to clash on Saturday afternoon.


German Christmas market 'unlikely' the target in bomb scare

Posted: 02 Dec 2017 04:07 AM PST

German Christmas market 'unlikely' the target in bomb scareBERLIN (AP) — German police said Saturday it appeared doubtful that a suspicious package containing nails that led to a bomb scare in a city near Berlin was targeted at a Christmas market.


Blake Farenthold Used $84,000 In Taxpayer Money To Settle Sexual Harassment Claim, Politico Reports

Posted: 01 Dec 2017 11:24 AM PST

Blake Farenthold Used $84,000 In Taxpayer Money To Settle Sexual Harassment Claim, Politico ReportsPolitico on Friday identified Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-Texas) as the congressman who used $84,000 in taxpayer funds to settle a sexual harassment claim.


Experts Say Trump Tweet Provides Ammo For Obstruction of Justice Case

Posted: 02 Dec 2017 06:11 PM PST

Experts Say Trump Tweet Provides Ammo For Obstruction of Justice CasePresident Donald Trump gloated in a tweet Saturday that he fired Michael Flynn because he knew he lied to the FBI.


Meghan Markle and Prince Harry embark on their first engagements as a couple: Part 6

Posted: 01 Dec 2017 05:34 PM PST

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry embark on their first engagements as a couple: Part 6The two share a passion for humanitarian work, and their first stop was an event honoring World Aids Day.


Mother Of Woman Missing After Tinder Date Hopeful After 'Persons Of Interest' Arrested

Posted: 01 Dec 2017 04:15 PM PST

Mother Of Woman Missing After Tinder Date Hopeful After 'Persons Of Interest' ArrestedThe mother of a woman who went missing three weeks ago is hopeful for answers now that two people believed to have information on her daughter's disappearance have been arrested on unrelated charges.


Fiat Chrysler CEO says in talks with Hyundai on tech partnership

Posted: 02 Dec 2017 08:33 AM PST

Fiat Chrysler CEO says in talks with Hyundai on tech partnershipFiat Chrysler Automobiles is in talks with South Korea's Hyundai about a technical partnership, but there are no merger talks between the two, FCA Chief Executive Sergio Marchionne said on Saturday. FCA is often the subject of merger speculation, especially after its unsuccessful 2015 attempt to tie up with larger U.S. rival GM.


Is This the Battle That Turned the Tide of the Korean War?

Posted: 03 Dec 2017 04:13 AM PST

Is This the Battle That Turned the Tide of the Korean War?Warfare History Network


Natural tremor near N. Korea nuclear test site: S. Korea

Posted: 01 Dec 2017 09:46 PM PST

Natural tremor near N. Korea nuclear test site: S. KoreaA natural earthquake of magnitude 2.5 occurred Saturday near North Korea's nuclear test site, the fourth such tremor since the North's most recent atomic explosion there, South Korean officials said. "The quake is a natural one and it is believed to have occurred in the aftermath of the sixth nuclear test", it said. Minor tremors have been detected after the North carried out its sixth and most powerful nuclear test underground in September, damaging geological structures in the area, it added.


A Popular Voting Reform Could Add 22 Million Americans To The Rolls, Analysis Shows

Posted: 01 Dec 2017 02:32 PM PST

A Popular Voting Reform Could Add 22 Million Americans To The Rolls, Analysis ShowsSimply changing how people are offered the opportunity to register to vote could result in 22 million people being added to voter rolls across the United States, according to a new analysis.


Syrian state media: Israeli missiles strike near Damascus

Posted: 02 Dec 2017 03:51 AM PST

Syrian state media: Israeli missiles strike near DamascusBEIRUT (AP) — Israel fired several surface-to-surface missiles at a military post near the Syrian capital of Damascus early on Saturday, causing material damage but no casualties, Syria's state-run news agency reported.


Controversial Congressman Once Asked Why Terrorists Don’t Target The IRS and DMVs

Posted: 01 Dec 2017 07:05 PM PST

Controversial Congressman Once Asked Why Terrorists Don't Target The IRS and DMVsRep. Blake Farenthold (R-Texas), who was unmasked Friday as the only congressman to use funds from the now infamous Congressional Office of Compliance to settle a sexual harassment claim, once asked in a tweet, "Why do terrorists hate airplanes?


How the Siberian tiger was brought back from the brink of extinction

Posted: 01 Dec 2017 11:00 PM PST

How the Siberian tiger was brought back from the brink of extinctionThe forests of Russia's Far East evoke a strange feeling, one that most Europeans have not been forced to consider for centuries. It is the sensation of being watched; of unseen menace lurking between the trees. Ultimately, it is the realisation that you are among predators, and being contemplated as either a rival or prey. A loud roar echoes around as we tread through a valley of volcanic rock formed between a dense canopy of Mongolian oak and Korean pine. My guide, Pavel Fomenko, hands me a flare with the instruction to use it should a bear approach.We creep forward, crunching over fallen leaves while our other guide, the hunting inspector for Primorsky Krai province, Alexander Korneev, peels off into the undergrowth. Ravens shriek about the treetops. If the birds are up, Fomenko warns, it means something has disturbed them. We arrive at a clearing scattered with clumps of fur. A few metres away lie the remains of a black bear, buzzing with flies. This is what we have been searching for: the recently dispatched supper of an Amur tiger. They call this boreal wilderness the taiga in Russian, forests sprawling hundreds of miles from the North Korean border up towards the Arctic. They are home to a vast collection of flora and fauna and, above all, predators.  An estimated 95 per cent of the world's population of Amur (or Siberian) tigers live here. Up to 10ft long, larger, heavier and stronger than their Asian cousins, they are the undisputed rulers of the forest; their orange, black and white pelts enable them to move like ghosts between the trees.   Alexander Korneev, hunting inspector for Primorsky Krai province Credit: Olya Ivanova We have been tracking this particular tiger, Vladik, since my arrival in the Russian port city of Vladivostok three days earlier. A young male around four years old and weighing more than  22st, he first drew attention to himself in October 2016 after wandering into Vladivostok's concrete suburbs and provoking a storm of publicity.  Eventually he was caught and taken to a tiger rehabilitation centre, before being released this May in the Bikin National Park, wearing a GPS collar. Since then, however, Vladik has been steadily heading south, back towards Vladivostok, covering around 450 miles and killing 10 large animals en route, including bear, deer and wild boar. Fomenko, who is WWF Russia's head of rare species conservation, fears that if Vladik continues this trajectory he will end up once again too close to a town and have to be recaptured and sent to a zoo. 'Vladik is a lovely tiger with all the rights and ability to live in the wild,' he says. 'I worry about him and all of Russia's Amur tigers. All of the time.' The Amur tiger is that rarity, an endangered species whose population is increasing. In the 1930s, numbers fell as low as 20 animals, threatened to the point of extinction by poaching and logging. In 1995, there were 330 to 371 adult tigers. In 2015, after a survey of 60,000 square miles of the tigers' habitat, the number had risen to 540 in the wild (including some 100 cubs).  The success story (albeit one cautiously told) of Amur tigers is at the forefront of the WWF's mission to increase the world's tiger population in the wild to more than 6,000 by 2022, the next Chinese year of the tiger (up from the 3,900 counted in 2016).That figure would mark a huge step forward in achieving global security for tigers, whose populations were decimated by 97 per cent in the past century. Much of the progress in Russia is down to men like Fomenko and Korneev, who have spent decades on the front line fighting poachers seeking tiger skins and body parts to supply the voracious Asian market. Like rhinos, tigers are valued for bogus medicinal properties. The taiga, Russia's forests, are home to the Amur tigers Credit: Olya Ivanova One of many prevailing myths is that if you poke a tiger whisker into a decaying tooth it will stop it aching.  The stakes are high. A poacher can pay fines of up to one million roubles (£13,000), while those caught killing a tiger also face 15 years in prison. As a result, poachers are willing to fight to the death. Fomenko can recall at least three occasions on which armed poachers have tried to kill him. A few years ago, Korneev, whose brigade catches around 120 culprits a year, was seriously injured after being run over by a poacher on a snowmobile.  When he first started as a hunting inspector 13 years ago, Korneev tells me, even to find a tiger paw print was big news. 'Now I see the actual animal three times a year,' he grins.  The most recent sighting was four days previously when he spotted a tiger stalking a family of wild boar over a ridge. It paused, contemplating him with unblinking amber eyes before bristling and slowly beginning to advance. To ward it off Korneev fired his hunting rifle into the air. As the report cracked through the stillness, the tiger melted into the forest.  The first time Pavel Fomenko met a tiger, it ate his dog. He tells me the story during lunch one day when we are sitting by a fire in the forest eating cheese and bread, and drinking smoke-infused tea boiled on the open flames. He was barely 20 at the time, out hunting with his dog, Amba, when it suddenly started barking at something rustling in the bushes. 'I was inexperienced and didn't realise what was happening, and suddenly this tiger pounced in front of me.' Fomenko's weather-beaten face takes on a rueful expression, 'I loved that dog.' A great bear of a man prone to long philosophical soliloquies in-between explaining his scientific studies of the tiger, the 54-year-old is a hero in the Tolstoyan mould. Not least in his connection to the land. A watchtower used to keep track of illegal poaching and logging Credit: Olya Ivanova Fomenko spends weeks at a time in the wilderness away from his wife Yulia and two sons, and regards his time there as spiritually cleansing. He grew up in a coal-mining town in south Siberia where, like his father and grandfather before him, he worked in the pits. He recalls operating a digger and looking up at a distant forest on the horizon: 'All the time I knew I was doing something wrong.' Fomenko decided, instead, to study ecology at Irkutsk Agrarian University. After graduating, he moved to Primorsky Krai to continue his studies as a biologist and work as a wildlife game manager. Like some 90,000 others in the province he is a proud hunter and would supplement his income by shooting sable (a small mammal similar to a pine marten, prized for its fur). He still hunts today and says, 'Many people do not understand hunters are the true friends of nature.'    Amur tiger Fomenko revels in such contradictions and insists numerous times while we're together that he doesn't even like tigers. 'For me, the tiger is an umbrella. I can protect everything using money intended only for tigers and can conserve the forest where they live. So thank God we have our tigers.' Fomenko joined the WWF in 1994. The Soviet Union had been dissolved three years earlier and with it state funding for nature protection disappeared almost overnight. Chinese prospectors quickly moved in. 'Everything was targeted, from timber to frogs and, of course, tigers,' Fomenko says. 'And so people started to kill.' But in recent years the tiger protectors have found themselves a powerful ally: the Russian president Vladimir Putin, who has come to regard the Amur tiger as a potent symbol of national pride. The Russian government has agreed to restrict logging in Amur tiger habitat and a presidential order in 2011 banned logging of Korean pine (although, over the past five years enough illegal wood from other species was logged to fill 400 miles of railways carriages). Pavel Fomenko, WWF Russia's head of rare species conservation Credit: Olya Ivanova At the same time, it has has also increased penalties for poaching and possession of tiger parts.  Putin nowadays rarely wastes a photo opportunity with a tiger, and a few years ago state media reported he had personally immobilised one with a tranquilliser dart as it charged towards a nearby camera crew – although no footage of the deed exists. Fomenko only raises an eyebrow when I ask him what he thinks.  My visit comes a few weeks before the first snowfall of the year in Primorsky Krai. The silver birches, bent almost double under the weight of last year's drifts, stand testament to the severity  of winter here, when temperatures of -30C are not uncommon. In late autumn, the mercury hovers around freezing in the day and well below at night.  On one such cold afternoon I meet Alexander Primenko who lives in a small clearing in the forest. The 65-year-old has stayed here alone for the past seven years and is part of a network of so-called 'watchmen', established to stay in the forest throughout winter to keep a lookout for poachers. Three tigers roam the forest close to his home and that morning we'd set camera traps nearby – tying them to trees on known routes. We manage to capture an image of one of the beasts. We also come across a paw print in the mud, the size of two fists and unmistakably belonging to a tiger.  Being a watchman is a dangerous occupation. The left side of Primenko's face carries a livid scar from a bear attack five years ago and his nostril is torn in half, whistling during the several shots of home-brewed liquor he drinks in my presence. 'It was only a scratch,' he says. He grew up in a village 120 miles from here, which is now all but abandoned. After his wife died of cancer a decade ago, he decided to move into the forest and live self-sufficiently as a watchman helping to save the tiger. He keeps chickens and bees, has a small generator for electricity  and a wood-fired stove. In total, he has lost 14  dogs to tigers over the years and points out the empty kennels where a tiger recently broke in and ate three. A camera trap to follow the tigers'progress is set by Alexy, Alexander Korneev's son Credit: Olya Ivanova 'I see it like paying rent to them,' he says. 'The only feeling I have for the tiger is one of total respect. When you hear the roar, the noise is loud enough to split your head from your ears.' A four-hour drive away I meet another watchman, Alexei Mitusov, 57, who also lives alone but with a stack of Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie books to see him through the winter. 'The tigers are always present, even when you don't see them,' he says. 'To me, the tiger is the owner of the forest and I am his guest.'  As well as tackling poachers and loggers, Fomenko has placed great emphasis on conserving tigers' habitat and prey. Over the past decade, three major national parks and other protected areas have been established, encompassing a land mass spanning  almost 4,000 square miles and around 20 per cent of the tigers' range. He also works closely with the 90 or so privately leased hunting estates in Primorsky Krai, 10 of which have now been transformed into what Pavel calls 'model estates', where tigers, and the animals they feed on, are thriving.  Increasing their food in the forests means fewer tigers are wandering into villages. But, still, 40 conflicts are recorded each year, resulting in mauling and occasionally death.  At present, roughly one person is killed by a tiger every two years. The most recent came this October when a 43-year-old man was mauled to death gathering pine nuts in Khabarovsk region, which neighbours Primorsky Krai. If caught, Fomenko says, the maneater will most likely end up in permanent captivity. Tiger 'prison', he calls it. With the vast majority of Russia's Amur tigers that come into contact with humans, though, capturing and rehabilitating them before releasing them elsewhere in the wild is key to the national strategy. Not far from Vladivostok is a specialist centre for tigers that have come into conflict with humans. The team fight to keep the habitat safe for the animals to live within Credit: Olya Ivanova Established in 2012 with support from the government and various wildlife groups, so far 10 animals have been released from here back into the wild (including Vladik). The work is overseen by Ekaterina Blidchenko, a 30-year-old zoologist from Moscow.   When I visit, there are two cubs, Saihan and Lazovka, who were bought here the previous winter. Blidchenko explains that the tigers are kept in sealed pens away from humans and slowly taught how to fend for themselves with live prey released once every five days.  She shows me a recent CCTV recording of the tigers taking down a deer. One of the cubs lies in wait while the other chases the deer towards it. At the moment of impact the tiger leaps from its hiding place and catches the deer head on, grabbing its body and mauling its head. The deer is dead in a few seconds. It is both shocking and deeply impressive.  'I love all predators,' she says. 'Sometimes they are prejudged by the people who live close to them but I don't think this is fair. The tiger is part of our legend and fairy tales. If you start to look deeper, you see they are afraid themselves – more frequently than we can imagine.' For days, we wait for news of Vladik's latest movements. He's passed through numerous villages and crossed the Trans-Siberian railway. If he moves any closer to Vladivostok he will have to be caught. One morning towards the end of our trip, Fomenko receives a phone call. Vladik has turned south-west, away from the city, over a vast plateau leading towards the mountains of the Chinese border. A broad smile cracks across Fomenko's face. Vladik is safe – for now. wwf.org.uk/russiantigers


Barack Obama Appears To Zing Donald Trump With Twitter Followers Boast

Posted: 02 Dec 2017 12:18 AM PST

Barack Obama Appears To Zing Donald Trump With Twitter Followers BoastFormer President Barack Obama appeared to throw subtle shade at President Donald Trump for having less Twitter followers than himself during a forum in India on Friday.


Argentina navy concludes ship remains not connected to missing sub

Posted: 02 Dec 2017 06:08 PM PST

Argentina navy concludes ship remains not connected to missing subArgentina's navy on Saturday investigated what appeared to be remains of a ship on the South Atlantic seabed, but concluded they did not correspond to the submarine that disappeared more than two weeks ago with 44 crew members on board. The remains detected at 477 meters (1565 feet) under the ocean had dimensions similar to the missing ARA San Juan, but appeared to be from a sunken fishing vessel, Navy spokesman Enrique Balbi told journalists. The navy's final contact with the ARA San Juan, a 34-year-old German-built diesel-electric sub, came on November 15, when it was sailing in the South Atlantic 450 kilometers (280 miles) from the coast.


Colorado man charged with killing wife in Iowa in 2000

Posted: 01 Dec 2017 02:13 PM PST

Colorado man charged with killing wife in Iowa in 2000MOUNT PLEASANT, Iowa (AP) — A Colorado man has been charged in the cold-case killing of his estranged wife in Iowa, where they used to live and where she was last seen 17 years ago.


Germany's far-right AfD chooses nationalist as co-leader

Posted: 02 Dec 2017 12:48 PM PST

Germany's far-right AfD chooses nationalist as co-leaderBy Sabine Ehrhardt HANOVER, Germany (Reuters) - Members of the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) party elected a right-wing nationalist to be their co-leader on Saturday, signaling a possible toughening of tone before regional votes next year. A party congress chose Alexander Gauland - who once defended an AfD member who had said history should be rewritten to focus on German victims of World War Two - to return to the post he had held until 2015. As members deliberated, thousands of anti-AfD protesters marched outside carrying placards reading "Hanover against Nazis" and "Stand up to racism".


Actual Asian Comic Writers Respond To Marvel Editor-In-Chief's 'Yellowface' Controversy

Posted: 02 Dec 2017 12:27 PM PST

Actual Asian Comic Writers Respond To Marvel Editor-In-Chief's 'Yellowface' ControversyAs the comic industry grapples with the revelation that new Marvel editor-in-chief C.B. Cebulski posed as an Asian writer for a year, real writers of Asian descent are speaking up.


House GOP Unveils Plan to Avert Government Shutdown

Posted: 02 Dec 2017 08:11 AM PST

House GOP Unveils Plan to Avert Government ShutdownThe move comes despite opposition from some GOP conservatives


Pope Francis Prays Alongside Rohingya Muslim Refugees During Trip To Bangladesh

Posted: 01 Dec 2017 09:59 AM PST

Pope Francis Prays Alongside Rohingya Muslim Refugees During Trip To BangladeshPope Francis met and prayed alongside 16 Muslim refugees in Bangladesh on Friday, using the word "Rohingya" for the first time during a papal trip to Asia filled with diplomatic tensions.


Senate Passes Massive Tax Cuts For The Rich In Middle Of The Night

Posted: 01 Dec 2017 10:52 PM PST

Senate Passes Massive Tax Cuts For The Rich In Middle Of The NightWASHINGTON ― When Donald Trump was elected president last year, a sweeping rewrite of the tax code was one of his priorities.


Gregg Jarrett on FBI agent dismissed from Mueller probe

Posted: 03 Dec 2017 06:31 AM PST

Gregg Jarrett on FBI agent dismissed from Mueller probeFox News anchor and attorney speaks out on 'Fox & Friends.'


Officer who shot, killed unarmed man set to learn sentence

Posted: 02 Dec 2017 10:18 AM PST

Officer who shot, killed unarmed man set to learn sentenceCOLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A former South Carolina police officer will soon learn how long he'll spend in prison for the shooting death - captured on video by a witness - of an unarmed motorist.


US automakers report mixed sales for November

Posted: 01 Dec 2017 05:26 PM PST

US automakers report mixed sales for NovemberUS auto sales offered a mixed picture in November, with Ford reporting an increase but GM and Fiat Chrysler posting declines, according to monthly sales data released Friday. The major Japanese automakers also were split, with Honda and Nissan posting strong sales increases, while a gain in light trucks for Toyota was not enough to offset a steep drop in sales of cars. The pace of sales also fell sharply for electric automaker Tesla.


Mattis eyes moving away from arming Syrian Kurdish fighters

Posted: 01 Dec 2017 03:57 PM PST

Mattis eyes moving away from arming Syrian Kurdish fightersBy Idrees Ali ABOARD A U.S. MILITARY AIRCRAFT (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Friday that as offensive operations against Islamic State in Syria entered their final stages, he expected the focus to move towards holding territory instead of arming Syrian Kurdish fighters. Speaking with reporters on a military plane en route to Cairo, Mattis did not say if there had already been a halt to weapons transfers. U.S. President Donald Trump informed Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan in a call last week that Washington was adjusting military support to partners on the ground in Syria.


Albino Dog's Life Changed With Loving New Family, and a Stylish Pair of Sunglasses

Posted: 01 Dec 2017 10:52 AM PST

Albino Dog's Life Changed With Loving New Family, and a Stylish Pair of SunglassesSherlock's life went from a rocky start to smooth sailing when the pooch was outfitted with a pair of suave sunglasses.


Why This Aging Expert Thinks First 1,000-Year-Old Person is Already Alive

Posted: 01 Dec 2017 10:34 AM PST

Why This Aging Expert Thinks First 1,000-Year-Old Person is Already AliveAubrey de Grey wants to end ageing forever.


The U.S. Army's Powerful New 7.62mm Service Rifle Is Officially Dead

Posted: 02 Dec 2017 04:37 AM PST

The U.S. Army's Powerful New 7.62mm Service Rifle Is Officially DeadThe Army has officially canceled its search for an off-the-shelf 7.62mm Interim Combat Service Rifle (ICSR) meant to replace the standard-issue M4 carbine — a major setback in the branch's search for a new infantry rifle to augment soldier lethality. Army Contracting Command announced the cancellation of the ICSR program on Nov. 28, citing a "reprioritization" of funding for the commercially made service rifle to the Next Generation Squad Weapon (NGSW) as a replacement for both the M4 and M249 Squad Automatic Weapon and "a long-term solution to meet the identified capability gap instead of the ICSR, which was an interim solution." The announcement did not disclose the scope of the funds involved, and PEO Soldier and U.S. Army Contracting Command did not immediately respond to inquiries from Task & Purpose.


Ryan Reynolds Wished His Brother A Happy Birthday In The Only Way He Knows How

Posted: 02 Dec 2017 03:13 AM PST

Ryan Reynolds Wished His Brother A Happy Birthday In The Only Way He Knows HowRyan Reynolds busted out his grade-A trolling game once again to wish his big brother Jeff a happy birthday on Friday.


ABC Corrects Explosive Michael Flynn Report That Drove Down Stocks

Posted: 01 Dec 2017 10:38 PM PST

ABC Corrects Explosive Michael Flynn Report That Drove Down StocksABC News issued a correction late Friday to its report that Michael Flynn was prepared to testify that Donald Trump told him to reach out to Russian officials during the presidential campaign.


Leader of 'Cult-Like' Boarding School Is Arrested In Late 1980s Cold Case Death Of Toddler

Posted: 02 Dec 2017 11:30 AM PST

Leader of 'Cult-Like' Boarding School Is Arrested In Late 1980s Cold Case Death Of ToddlerAnna E. Young once ran a religious boarding house in Florida.


The Latest: Militants down chopper in Syria, say activists

Posted: 01 Dec 2017 09:54 AM PST

The Latest: Militants down chopper in Syria, say activistsBEIRUT (AP) — The Latest on the war in Syria (all times local):


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